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miming used to say -- midge used to s i have a lot of boy in me. i couldn't resist and said one last thing. on the positive side, we'd be a great balanced tt because i re aag - caiar a flag pen, and he doesn't. that's what president obama got grief for not wearing a pen. i was off the air at 2:31. then my phone rang, and it was [lterrhi speune person here in chicago thought that was funny. [laughter] i said, david, come on, you guys got to get e sense of humor, noeroul r ma it t goseof humor, but made it to november just find. thank you, all. [laughter] [applae] >> you're watching 48 urs of non-fiction authors and boks on >> there's been a hostility through poverty. it's the war on porty. johnson was the best president and looked at poverty issues and ent money on it andtalked hao this, but richard nixon is the father of minority business development, and inside his minority business -- established small business adminiration andused the trm coc jceic n,nojue. he fer pde bennet college for women regularly writes and comments on politics, education,
miming used to say -- midge used to s i have a lot of boy in me. i couldn't resist and said one last thing. on the positive side, we'd be a great balanced tt because i re aag - caiar a flag pen, and he doesn't. that's what president obama got grief for not wearing a pen. i was off the air at 2:31. then my phone rang, and it was [lterrhi speune person here in chicago thought that was funny. [laughter] i said, david, come on, you guys got to get e sense of humor, noeroul r ma it t goseof humor,...
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[laughter] none of us are 100% non-wusses, and none of us are 100% wusses. so having said that, your original question was? oh, aboutampgn nance thsws, ery t shibot. it is stunning, the influence of money in politics, special interests in politics. and with citizenned united -- cizens united, which i believe thprcoin mg wor sif ti- la s has said you have to go back to dred scott to find a decision as bad. with citizens unit the floodgat have opened, and noly its edo ggac ow t limits off corporate contributions and individual contributions, but it makes it very hard to find out who's givinghat before the election occurs. it's disastrous on so many diffent fronts. to tinth do edelson is going to give $100 million to help defeat president obama is absolutely stunning. it's absolutely stunning. that one person can do that legally, absolutely stunning. we have to make changes, but in light of the court'sci i tiun, ton ev co s and the constitution. and it would be what's called the 28th amendment. if any of you watch dylan rat michigan on msnbcn the tr tar sor bvo
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thank you to all of you for coming to join us. i like to give you the official leather bound guilded copy. here is your constitution. >> kevin thank you for joining us at the national constitution center. happy independents day. [applause] >> booktv has over 150,000 twitter followers. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information, and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. what will you reading this summer? booktv. s to know. doing work to sort of going over to my personal reading. i'm reading a number of books involving islamic terrorism, american response to 9/11, what we're doing as far as afghanistan and iraq. main book i read was "hard measures." jose rodriguez he was head of the team that put together integration methods. it was criticized it was effective and did the job, i think. very well written book. also the "art of intelligence "by hank. he's in the cia but organize straiting director in the war in -- sphas what they're doing in iraq and af
thank you to all of you for coming to join us. i like to give you the official leather bound guilded copy. here is your constitution. >> kevin thank you for joining us at the national constitution center. happy independents day. [applause] >> booktv has over 150,000 twitter followers. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information, and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. what will you reading this...
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that resonate with us today. this november each political party will have 10,000 lawyers monitoring there election. if there any regularities or any sloppiness or any fraud, you cas bet that this will go to court. we came only a few thousand votes away from john kerry challenging the ohio electionhae resultsat in 2004 and that could've launched the same process all over again.is walter ds ean burnham, the deanf american political scientists say we have a sloppy selection system of any industrialized democracy. e time to take remedial steps will the election to minimize the sloppiness, incompetents, and from. from has distorted history in american life. it just like to be decent and animals college students. and live in new jersey, one of the most corrupt political machines ever. the men there for 40 years. what it @booktv? because of its wooden ones. in 1935 be honest about association, the do that is another day some 245 princeton, students to one of the election. the beat of five of them within the or the arriv
that resonate with us today. this november each political party will have 10,000 lawyers monitoring there election. if there any regularities or any sloppiness or any fraud, you cas bet that this will go to court. we came only a few thousand votes away from john kerry challenging the ohio electionhae resultsat in 2004 and that could've launched the same process all over again.is walter ds ean burnham, the deanf american political scientists say we have a sloppy selection system of any...
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he provided use of commercial shipping that got to be a problematical. he signed and fostered the alien sedition acts, which criminalize public criticism of the government and use the sedition act to root out in the grades that were potentially hostile to federalist sensibilities and that will go back today. there's a story of one french bookstore owner who moved here quietly running the bookstore in philadelphia and ended up being singled out for deportation. a friend had some connections in washington. why me? why am i being singled out? the guy made some inquiries and reported back that the president said nothing in particular, but these two french. he presided over massive tax increases, which led the economy to begin stuttering, so the voters in 1800 display sent them packing and i think they have it right. there's a collective judgment, maybe even collective wisdom. they have four years to sue over it and then take another action and that's what they do. so both cleveland and not insisting ranking shifts since 1948, but they are still rather high.
he provided use of commercial shipping that got to be a problematical. he signed and fostered the alien sedition acts, which criminalize public criticism of the government and use the sedition act to root out in the grades that were potentially hostile to federalist sensibilities and that will go back today. there's a story of one french bookstore owner who moved here quietly running the bookstore in philadelphia and ended up being singled out for deportation. a friend had some connections in...
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used t have aroundtime square its rulclwtt. x atn . that was invented by a european ceo who is trying to get his vice presidents out of the building in sort of a weird new space so they could be created. that whole thing was about trng t g h es o exted y idents. or you probably know about, you know, sort of the dress down friday's a lot of companies now have we can come inand use their facilities, and then stuff and not have to necessarily give thea ot eattpny age a sense, you know, any workplace. there's a zillion schemes now to try to do this. i mean, there are some advantages to amateurism. i will sy unguided mtursm, t t esal s tag t ma. where you see like amateurs really work well as when it has some kind of interaction with a professional col de port. i have a whole chapter in our astronomy, and to show youhw seracentieng asoman university. that's been insanely productive for everybody. so, you know, as long as, if you go to the garage and you have no connecti to anyone uside, towpeuati ch, n of come you tend to be, the neighborho
used t have aroundtime square its rulclwtt. x atn . that was invented by a european ceo who is trying to get his vice presidents out of the building in sort of a weird new space so they could be created. that whole thing was about trng t g h es o exted y idents. or you probably know about, you know, sort of the dress down friday's a lot of companies now have we can come inand use their facilities, and then stuff and not have to necessarily give thea ot eattpny age a sense, you know, any...
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fu o , icly for us. if we seek race-neutral institutions and color blind laws, they call us racist. of if we point to the thre sed by islicans, t ula phobes and bigots. the only attitudes our opponents hold that could reasonably be called liberal under sympathies they exhibit fo domestic fohepera o voter fraud and the denigrators of religious faith, for the thug erie of government unions and the an anarchistobs who seek to reverselection results they don't like. lilswhago f munists befo , agetrol our lives, to make us better. no more big gulps or incandescent lightbulbs or untad lemonade stands. this all reflectshe reality to mention. inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out. [laughter] and justas liberals aren't ho tmawsy edict.ts are no when they control the congress, they rule without advice or consent. when they losetate elections, they descend on legislatures to shut down the very process of deliberation and debate. un ynkhaiv the discredited ideas of karl marx and jimmy carter is the way to the happy future. the book that jacob and i have obatth draich we ca
fu o , icly for us. if we seek race-neutral institutions and color blind laws, they call us racist. of if we point to the thre sed by islicans, t ula phobes and bigots. the only attitudes our opponents hold that could reasonably be called liberal under sympathies they exhibit fo domestic fohepera o voter fraud and the denigrators of religious faith, for the thug erie of government unions and the an anarchistobs who seek to reverselection results they don't like. lilswhago f munists befo ,...
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we have to use a metaphor. i call it a short sense of separation kind of like italian neighborhoods whe you can speak over the short fans. you can be friendly. that's a much better description of what we're talking about. just because the constitution does not have the phrase wall of separation, not it is a private human sacrifice. so come on. i wrote the book because unfortunately had think our american spirit is still alive. we can turn this nation around, but unfortunately we have become a very of our constitution. it does not come to you in the bloodstream. it has to be taught. that's what i'm attempting to do. a few short examples indelicate to some questions. i'm told all the time how is it a shame the president to have that pledge of allegiance has been taken of public-school. the implication that it's been taken up by a supreme court of the interstates. that is a false statement. it's false. the ninth circuit removed the underdog frays and therefore from the year 2000 forward that was reversed on a tech
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and we don't want anybody taking that away from us. you know, there've been lawsuits against even the pledge of allegiance. they have not succeeded with those yet, but who knows if one of the greatest powers of the president is the power to appoint judges. if obama points another alayna kay hagan, that will control our country for the next 50 years. we can't afford that. so your up for this ..
and we don't want anybody taking that away from us. you know, there've been lawsuits against even the pledge of allegiance. they have not succeeded with those yet, but who knows if one of the greatest powers of the president is the power to appoint judges. if obama points another alayna kay hagan, that will control our country for the next 50 years. we can't afford that. so your up for this ..
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what does it mean about us, wha@ does it say about us and you might have said that cat. we think that jayvee's calenture holden caulfield and we think about phonies. well, when you think about this book, which was introduced to the american culture by norman mailer in the naked and the dead in 1948 and he picked it up as a term the g.i.s were using in europe and people are first of all surprised that it's that recent from its prevalence has grown from that recent time and there is no question that it has certain kinds of meetings and connotations in our personal lives, our cultural lives, and in our political lives and i don't want to try to get into each of his arguments and that i'm going to say read the book for that but it's really a lot of fun and quite delicious and it starts with, you know, norman mailer and ends by the joking. >> susan weinberg, did you pick the title of that book or did he? >> he picked the title, and he very, very deliberately chose not to use the word in the title, and he has a great piece at the end of his introduction on why he did that. >>
what does it mean about us, wha@ does it say about us and you might have said that cat. we think that jayvee's calenture holden caulfield and we think about phonies. well, when you think about this book, which was introduced to the american culture by norman mailer in the naked and the dead in 1948 and he picked it up as a term the g.i.s were using in europe and people are first of all surprised that it's that recent from its prevalence has grown from that recent time and there is no question...
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for us it was a journey that continues because people kept telling us things we do not know. in some ways, ronald reagan was a bigger part of that story than we would have gassed, because when we first meet him in 1947, long before his presidency, and as we dug deeper into reagan's relationship with the club, we learned that he had actually seen fdr when he was living in des moines, and he had gone to a truman fundraiser in kansas city when he was still a democrat. he would then be taken under the wing of tran-eights. i was struck with a relationship as we were coming up the driveway here we saw all the presidents here, as we were coming in the driveway, which reminds us that they have a part of the bigger club. i just want to advance the picture here that was on the cover of "time" magazine. we were thrilled to put it on the cover from a picture that had never been published before, it takes you into the modern club that really began a long time ago when they picked up the torch. >> it begins when a president is in need of some serious help. that is what it would take to bri
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normally use say satisfaction guaranteed. but these for-profit schools they say you cannot get your money back and the student loan is an albatross for the rest of your life. we have three introduced partial indenture servitude. what is deeply disturbing is the way the financial sector with predatory lending which effectively moves money from the bottom to the top why there is some much money at the top and so little at the bottom. this gave the framework to do that. but it has to do with government they use the political influence and it takes money -- many forms one task list to identify corporate welfare. a lot is buried in the tax cut. it was as fair and very large. but we could not do anything about it. the largest act of corporate welfare was the bailout of the bank. edition their fur hidden subsidies were is the government pays more of the market prices from medicare part d but how one sentence can make a difference largest purchaser of drugs could not bargain which is half a trillion dollars over 10 years and gift to
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substance then use more? >> they all need substance in the end. because even -- the incumbent campaign has to be based on some of the substance of what they done in the big moves. the challenger can go beyond a lot of smoke and mirrors and cheap talk. in your record. i don't think people understand. bill clinton was famous in the '92 campaign for the sister soldier even where he made it clear that he was determined enough to of building a multiracial coalition. he would criticize violence have pop lyrics. he had given speeches like that during the campaign, but nobody took him seriously because of all the, i didn't inhale, maintain my ability, and all sorts of remarks that have made him look like when somebody said a person whose favorite color was plaid. one day during the campaign, one day during the campaign he gave a very tough speech about the need to change behavior and a black church. the went to a white church in detroit. the white church, the famous ex democratic reagan democrat. anyone to a big afri
substance then use more? >> they all need substance in the end. because even -- the incumbent campaign has to be based on some of the substance of what they done in the big moves. the challenger can go beyond a lot of smoke and mirrors and cheap talk. in your record. i don't think people understand. bill clinton was famous in the '92 campaign for the sister soldier even where he made it clear that he was determined enough to of building a multiracial coalition. he would criticize violence...
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used to be. i don't like all the money any more than most people, and i don't think -- it's like an arms race. we could stop at 1000 nuclear weapons as opposed to each stopping at eight or 9000. we would all save a lot of money. but you can't be forced to have a treaty. so you pile on the billions on each side. but it is not a longer process than it needs to be. it is just a longer public process. eugene mccarthy started campaigning to be a nominee in 1960. then he decided in 1968 to be the reluctant nominee that never wanted to run. [laughter] john kennedy spent years trying to get to be vice president in 1956. people have always started running today that they get the dream in their eye and they don't stop until they can't run anymore. the difference is now are that it is public. i think it works better in a smoke-filled room. not because we are smarter than the bosses, but because this public process gives people more time to show how they are. it gives more time for the candidates to go at ea
used to be. i don't like all the money any more than most people, and i don't think -- it's like an arms race. we could stop at 1000 nuclear weapons as opposed to each stopping at eight or 9000. we would all save a lot of money. but you can't be forced to have a treaty. so you pile on the billions on each side. but it is not a longer process than it needs to be. it is just a longer public process. eugene mccarthy started campaigning to be a nominee in 1960. then he decided in 1968 to be the...
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th - cin-use ameedhtnfa fight your way out. fight your way out was call this the reinforcements no matter how manynit is k i'angs n b urathss, itaseoan ro to pakistan than i think people realize. certainly reflecting their vie and nothey didn't haecase tob us 5 ya ruthastyo owdsuu nuclear weapons and the osama bin laden's raid obama's decision s part of that. wemytkien tyo [inaudible] i'm a congressional journalist i've been cvering the foreign policy committee. i was riousf you haveny insiinoitbw a gia pa o te rereonmi. haoexri i. he seemed uncompressed in it. when i covered thecommittee he never attended eeptfor ti heer lemng s us oua siinha thons real quick, we've been coming up this week one reason the supreme court -- the argument for the sueme couristaiz sut w imiio bc 'sitre li anyeino ' udmiio y bo. i don't think anyone really in the "the obamians have imgration exrien do yosir igon oerl y owenstj >> t, committee certainly within a year after obama comes to washington, he's running for president. an 's nv alakoaoew iser
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he uses the excuse that he doesn't read his memos. someone in his staff did and didn't brief him about this program, and that staff member hasn't been fired. nobody has been fired as a result of this program. the white house says that they knew nothing about this, and i think they're getting a free pass because they asserted the least, the executive privilege with the least amount of power. and so they're saying, well, this doesn't necessarily mean that, um, there were communications with the president about this program, but they failed to mention that at least three national security advisers at the white house were being briefed about this program. as soon as we found out about kevin o'reilly who was a national security adviser at the time of this program was in touch with the phoenix office about this, they shipped him off to iraq, and he is unavailable for comment or to answer any questions by investigators. not to mention president obama's senior adviser for latin america was also getting briefed on program. and so why does this
he uses the excuse that he doesn't read his memos. someone in his staff did and didn't brief him about this program, and that staff member hasn't been fired. nobody has been fired as a result of this program. the white house says that they knew nothing about this, and i think they're getting a free pass because they asserted the least, the executive privilege with the least amount of power. and so they're saying, well, this doesn't necessarily mean that, um, there were communications with the...
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or tweet us a question, do that as well. well, so people understand your perspective, tell us more than i just did about yourself. >> guest: yeah. well, you know, i'm a constitutional law professor by trade, i've been teaching it for 15 years, and i have to tell you, sotime around the spring/summer of 2009, i give public speeches to various groups, rotarians, people like that, i had a bunch of people coming up to me afterwards with pocket constitutions. i rarely see them outside of a law school building, and i started seeing them all the time, and these people were asking me sort of intelligent questions about very specific clauses. and it dawned on me about three months into that that these were the tea partiers that i'd been hearing about. and they just defied the stereotype that i'd been reading about in the mainstream media, so i wanted to do a lot more research about who they early were and what made them tick, and it turns out they are a movement of constitutional conservativism and fiscal conservativism. they're not t
or tweet us a question, do that as well. well, so people understand your perspective, tell us more than i just did about yourself. >> guest: yeah. well, you know, i'm a constitutional law professor by trade, i've been teaching it for 15 years, and i have to tell you, sotime around the spring/summer of 2009, i give public speeches to various groups, rotarians, people like that, i had a bunch of people coming up to me afterwards with pocket constitutions. i rarely see them outside of a law...
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and so i disguised the person by not using his or her name. but i can tell you that i ran this version and i was told yes, that's exactly what happens.
and so i disguised the person by not using his or her name. but i can tell you that i ran this version and i was told yes, that's exactly what happens.
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clinton was a good to us and hired us. they have to understand it is a new day. he also says clarence timons-- clarence thomas thinks like whites there is a difference between having a black skin and black thinking he is accusing cuba gooding, jr. and acting 1/8 servile way to sellout in hollywood. and spike lee has gone after clint eastwood. he said his two movies flights of our fathers and letters from the iwo jima did not have enough black people. it was racist. it turns out the movie was about the soldiers that raised the flag. none of them were black. the second movie was told from the perspective of the japanese soldiers. none of those were black. [laughter] not only is spike lee a racist but also a dumb ass. [laughter] [applause] we should be thankful his racism has matured. 20 years ago he told the london guardian newspaper after visiting south africa wanted to pick up a gun and start shooting whites. the early 90's. matt damon. his movies are awesome. major hypocrite. he says he is committed to the code of nonviolence and peace-loving progressivism. i lo
clinton was a good to us and hired us. they have to understand it is a new day. he also says clarence timons-- clarence thomas thinks like whites there is a difference between having a black skin and black thinking he is accusing cuba gooding, jr. and acting 1/8 servile way to sellout in hollywood. and spike lee has gone after clint eastwood. he said his two movies flights of our fathers and letters from the iwo jima did not have enough black people. it was racist. it turns out the movie was...
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the use of the same kill or capture lists that the bush administration initiated only with obama using much more emphasis on killing rather than capturing. maintaining, despite an early effort that didn't go very far, maintaining the basic guantÁnamo. all of these things were things that he simply carried on the same war as george bush was slightly different rhetorical definition. >> guest: i mean, neoconservatives talked big and fought wars and theaters that had less to do with barack obama. the heart of barack obama strategy is american boots on the ground were a source of instability providing ideological and venetian to various elements. the idea from day one was to bring american troops home, to reduce the u.s. military footprint and that is the correcidea. this has been really one of his major political achievements. even though the military wanted to maintain its force in iraq, barack said no we want to give you a legal immunity. in afghanistan we know barack obama does not believe the mission would produce -- what he did though, what he did though and this is important, in fac
the use of the same kill or capture lists that the bush administration initiated only with obama using much more emphasis on killing rather than capturing. maintaining, despite an early effort that didn't go very far, maintaining the basic guantÁnamo. all of these things were things that he simply carried on the same war as george bush was slightly different rhetorical definition. >> guest: i mean, neoconservatives talked big and fought wars and theaters that had less to do with barack...
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obama doesn't seem to have the skill set to use human nature as a way of getting done what he wants to get done in washington. >> how many books have you written? >> well, i think this is my 11th book. there's three novels and eight notary public-fiction -- non-fiction books. >> what do you say to critics of your books? you refer this as a journalist book. >> yes. what do the critics say? >> about the accuracy of the stories you tell, ect.. >> right. well, the fact of the matter is that as far as i know there has not been a single fact in the book that's been challenged in a cred l way. people say, oh, klein makes things up. that's what kids in the schoolyard, you know, they call each other names. i've been all kinds of names, but, in fact, when it comes to the celt -- credibility of reporting, nobody laid a glove on me yet. >> former editor of "the new york times" magazine for how long? >> 12 years as editor in chief of the magazine. many of my books have been exi remember -- excerpted by "vanity fair," and they have the most rigorous fact checking department, and of all the books exc
obama doesn't seem to have the skill set to use human nature as a way of getting done what he wants to get done in washington. >> how many books have you written? >> well, i think this is my 11th book. there's three novels and eight notary public-fiction -- non-fiction books. >> what do you say to critics of your books? you refer this as a journalist book. >> yes. what do the critics say? >> about the accuracy of the stories you tell, ect.. >> right. well,...
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i don't think it's quite as overt anymore as it used to be. i think probably what we will see the next big spurt like that is when we start to have space pilots. to me, we have the astronauts, of course but not the next phase in space exploration is private industry, and they are going to be, you know, there are probably going to be these daredevil space pilots somewhere down the line. so i would agree with you. >> about your research being like libraries but i want to know who did all this wonderful research spent well, i went to a lot of archives. the biggest archive for the lindbergh archives, in st. louis with a kept everything about the flight. and then byrd collected letters and everything at the polar institute research at ohio state but for some of these guys publish books. i searched the archives on all of them that i could find. i read everything that i could find but i also flew in a crop duster collected get a feel for these little old planes and a lovely the air felt. i mean, and i spent a lot of time, there was a lot of this, a l
i don't think it's quite as overt anymore as it used to be. i think probably what we will see the next big spurt like that is when we start to have space pilots. to me, we have the astronauts, of course but not the next phase in space exploration is private industry, and they are going to be, you know, there are probably going to be these daredevil space pilots somewhere down the line. so i would agree with you. >> about your research being like libraries but i want to know who did all...
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. >> it's one of those members i've been using and hearing and writing this for so long and it's one of those numbers that is so large it is almost impossible to comprehend. what is a trillion? i can't quite imagine a million. >> guest: think about when barack obama came and said 700 million, $700 billion in order to basically reconstct the american economy, think of the cry. you are spending $700 billion. we don't have $700 billion. we dn't even have $3 trillion we have spent. most of the money was borrowed not to mention just about economic cost is also about the opportunity cost. while the united states was chasing the jihadis in afghanistan and pakistan the war was going on so barack obama inherited the legacy of the economic decline and also the rise of the geostrategic power china, india, africa, brazil, turkey, and this is why any particular as you say the question must take into account what he inherited and what he has been able to achieve so far. >> that raises the critical question scenario where he has inherited this weakened position of the united states. the u.s. is no
. >> it's one of those members i've been using and hearing and writing this for so long and it's one of those numbers that is so large it is almost impossible to comprehend. what is a trillion? i can't quite imagine a million. >> guest: think about when barack obama came and said 700 million, $700 billion in order to basically reconstct the american economy, think of the cry. you are spending $700 billion. we don't have $700 billion. we dn't even have $3 trillion we have spent. most...
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and he has used a bat. he's used it on my fridge that brilliantly. so, in a "what the (bleep) just happened?" i lay out the case and by the way i put together the entire obama domestic policy record with the entire foreign-policy record so you can see a dollop. i thought the evidence amassed in one place, it devastating. i read about egypt and the muslim brotherhood. i read about why president obama is celebrating today that the muslim brotherhood is taking over each at in a large part, the rest of the middle east. this is a man who helped to overthrow not one, but two solid american allies. hosting the broken egypt and moammar gadhafi in libya. was gadhafi a terrorist? absolutely. at the time, obama moved against omar gadhafi, he was one of our most solid allies, producing enormous amounts of intelligence on al qaeda and the muslim brotherhood, operate in libya and the broader middle east. of course that's taken out. meanwhile, regimes that are enemies of the united states like iran had nothing to say about the revolt by the iranian people against t
and he has used a bat. he's used it on my fridge that brilliantly. so, in a "what the (bleep) just happened?" i lay out the case and by the way i put together the entire obama domestic policy record with the entire foreign-policy record so you can see a dollop. i thought the evidence amassed in one place, it devastating. i read about egypt and the muslim brotherhood. i read about why president obama is celebrating today that the muslim brotherhood is taking over each at in a large...
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president, using up there. he stared into his progress and growled, utah, the problem of of what -- the power of the presidency. i spend most of my time is in some ways as. well, those two quotes really represents how it works. i think it is a marvelous institution and, as i say, it's a pleasure being here to talk about the marvelous institution. i'd be happy to take any questions. as you noted, please go to the microphone. [applause] >> think you for your talk. i can verify that everything you said is pretty much in there. my name is dave price. i am a retiree. have two questions. a very limited mentioned. more so than some of the others. was that deliberate on your part? the second question would be, given the new media which we have now to you think that will have any impact, for example, if you think of the alien and sedition act, imagine what will be done with that now. abraham lincoln and may not have even become president because of his squeaky voice and his looks. so it is kind of an unfair question. yo
president, using up there. he stared into his progress and growled, utah, the problem of of what -- the power of the presidency. i spend most of my time is in some ways as. well, those two quotes really represents how it works. i think it is a marvelous institution and, as i say, it's a pleasure being here to talk about the marvelous institution. i'd be happy to take any questions. as you noted, please go to the microphone. [applause] >> think you for your talk. i can verify that...
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for the united states should be saved for the big war were used for house it was in iraq. immediately after obama's election in 2008i decided i wanted to take a look at the democrats over the same time period. many of my books have covered the same time period from the 60's through the present day. and i kind of come across democratic policy and passing it on and i wanted to unify it and look at the obama administration. and since the 1970's, the democratic parties have a strong grass-roots base growing out of the entire war movement of the vietnam era. they have far fewer people particularly in the obama administration with a pentagon our defense background recall that bill clinton's last defense secretary was a republican and sure enough when obama took office, he appointed as his defense secretary robert gates, bush's final defense secretary and then a couple of the other leading job as in the obama administration went to the career military people, general jones who was the national security adviser, dennis blair who was in charge of the intelligence for the top jobs i
for the united states should be saved for the big war were used for house it was in iraq. immediately after obama's election in 2008i decided i wanted to take a look at the democrats over the same time period. many of my books have covered the same time period from the 60's through the present day. and i kind of come across democratic policy and passing it on and i wanted to unify it and look at the obama administration. and since the 1970's, the democratic parties have a strong grass-roots...
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>> use the opportunities before you. it is no surprise that sure i'd the young america foundation event. young america foundation saved the ronald reagan ranch and its making young people are introduced to reagan's ideas. reagan was bold with his pronouncement. he was not shameful or shy about his conservative ideas. and he actually had a maturation process. he started out as a democrat. he had some loss in the past that he wasn't proud of in the state of california, but more and more easterly to a conservative ideas, especially when he was a spokesman for general at drake and young americans for freedom actually sponsored a radio show by ronald reagan. he was a great communicator and the fact he was in hollywood help and was a great example of how pop culture is so influential on society. most people come especially on the right thinks they are going to change the attitude of the country through washington d.c. and legislative months. i don't believe that. i think you change society by influencing culture. politics runs
>> use the opportunities before you. it is no surprise that sure i'd the young america foundation event. young america foundation saved the ronald reagan ranch and its making young people are introduced to reagan's ideas. reagan was bold with his pronouncement. he was not shameful or shy about his conservative ideas. and he actually had a maturation process. he started out as a democrat. he had some loss in the past that he wasn't proud of in the state of california, but more and more...
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it's up to us as a people to say let us begin again to do the work. that is we are going to live, we are going to love and resist. most important word is resist. we are calling to resist. i will come once a week, once a month, twice a month, whatever, to have conversations about where are we, where are we going, and the other thing is even though barack obama didn't run, we should have a black cabinet. it can be official and unofficial but if he does something wrong we will send him a letter telling him what he is doing wrong. we need a black cabinet people, yes. i've said it from the jury beginning and at the moment he was elected we need a black cabinet. come on all you people. say we is your black cabinet. [laughter] [applause] >> let's give a big round of applause. thank you very much. there's going to be a book signing >> thank you. please stay in your seats for the next panel please stay in your seats. [inaudible conversations] >> and mullen book tv a panel discussion on the emancipation proclamation. as we continue our coverage of the harlem bo
it's up to us as a people to say let us begin again to do the work. that is we are going to live, we are going to love and resist. most important word is resist. we are calling to resist. i will come once a week, once a month, twice a month, whatever, to have conversations about where are we, where are we going, and the other thing is even though barack obama didn't run, we should have a black cabinet. it can be official and unofficial but if he does something wrong we will send him a letter...
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using governor romney to us to bring us together. >> i think he can bring us together and i think your past. he does have the virtue of an opponent that has spent his entire presidency dividing us as he sat along class lines and graceland, gender lines, the war on what he because the kooks need for division. they need america divided in order to conquer it. the kooks need us pitted against each other in order to answer their agenda. they been quite successful in doing that. when it comes to governor romney is a conservative in most of a circuit derivatives in this room, acr conservatives during the day for the big dance? no, probably not, but is he exactly the right man at exactly the right moment given the economic belltown reran? i think so. i really do think so and i've known him for a couple years. i can tell you he is a man of incredible professional and personal integrity. he is a brilliant guy as i mentioned before and i really think in his hands, america can come back because he is a creature of the dirt. he spent his whole life except for the one term in massachusetts in the a
using governor romney to us to bring us together. >> i think he can bring us together and i think your past. he does have the virtue of an opponent that has spent his entire presidency dividing us as he sat along class lines and graceland, gender lines, the war on what he because the kooks need for division. they need america divided in order to conquer it. the kooks need us pitted against each other in order to answer their agenda. they been quite successful in doing that. when it comes...
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but we have seen the use in 20th censure ri by the way, the founding fathers had little use for presidential rhetoric. they worried that the presidents who went out and spoke a lot with the demagogues that they would be making the worst kind of appeal toss the american people. >> so did they live it? >> by and large, they did. if you go back and you look at the kind of speeches that our presidents in the 19th century gave, what you find of course is that they gave some ceremonial addresses. but what they did not do, they did not go out, for example, and make a tour asking the american people to rally behind the president against congress, and on behalf of some legislative proposal that the president had on the hill that is simply unknown. of course, we didn't have the kind of technology that ecoul ecould -- that could equip the president to go out. the one time there was a departure from from that from andrew jackson, he almost got impeached. one of the articles of im35e67ment dealt with the speeches he made. you can't imagine someone trying to indict a president on the speeches today. every
but we have seen the use in 20th censure ri by the way, the founding fathers had little use for presidential rhetoric. they worried that the presidents who went out and spoke a lot with the demagogues that they would be making the worst kind of appeal toss the american people. >> so did they live it? >> by and large, they did. if you go back and you look at the kind of speeches that our presidents in the 19th century gave, what you find of course is that they gave some ceremonial...
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tell us about where he stands from the beginning to the en. what really makes him a kind of central independent black nationalist kind of candidate? >> guest: he is more complex than that. harold washington, a brilliant politician, great orator, and he really laid it on the ground of what the implications were about that election. and he had to be virtually dragged into running. there was a whole movement prior to getting him to run. led mostly by this activist by the name of lou palmer, who i talk about in the book. a political activist and not a political organizer. there's a difference and we can talk about that. and so carol washington was -- i would say was on the border between the black nationalists as well as the traditional independents because he had experience. he had tried to work in the machine, to make progress. he had grant for mayor in the 1970s. there were some sort of black machine politicians who went along with the -- the white machine candidates that way, heard washington called them the biggest uncle tom on god's green ea
tell us about where he stands from the beginning to the en. what really makes him a kind of central independent black nationalist kind of candidate? >> guest: he is more complex than that. harold washington, a brilliant politician, great orator, and he really laid it on the ground of what the implications were about that election. and he had to be virtually dragged into running. there was a whole movement prior to getting him to run. led mostly by this activist by the name of lou palmer,...
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all of us, i think, were taken with the women -- the treatment of women in afghanistan. what they endured as well. the treatment they received, and how some of them emerged, even in the face of torture and death, to say that we can create a society here. we can fight for education for girls, which the united states has done since we have been, in afghanistan, have tried to help them be free of the taliban and al qaeda is infiltration. we have assisted insisted that all of the aid that america puts forward be for girls and women, as well as boys and men. "vital voices" is an organization that came from these experiences whereby the voices honored each year, the women who have led in these countries and made a difference. every year that secretary of state hillary clinton and i have been the honorary cochairs, we have come to the award event. they are held at the kennedy center. these women get a validation that helps them pursue what they are doing in their countries. in some cases, it is the women who are building an economy. giving women like her opportunities for micro
all of us, i think, were taken with the women -- the treatment of women in afghanistan. what they endured as well. the treatment they received, and how some of them emerged, even in the face of torture and death, to say that we can create a society here. we can fight for education for girls, which the united states has done since we have been, in afghanistan, have tried to help them be free of the taliban and al qaeda is infiltration. we have assisted insisted that all of the aid that america...